Articles from the ‘Essays’ collection

One dancers lights another dancer who shoots their leg out to the side. They are wearing orange and a city scape rises behind them.

getting the wild light into my bones

Bay Area-based choreographer Bhumi B. Patel chronicles the inspiration behind her new work "wild light" using author Donna Haraway's speculative fiction, and her desire to put on-stage the worlds she wants to see off-stage.

November 17, 2025  |  Read Article

Lucy stands to the side and coaches four dancers looping their arms around each other.

Disappearing Dances

Arizona-based dance artist Yvonne Montoya highlights the work of Lucy Salazar, a New Mexican dancer and historian who is single handedly trying to save Los bailes de salón de Nuevo México from disappearing.

November 10, 2025  |  Read Article

Devin supports their weight on one hand and one foot, their other hand and foot extended outward. They are wearing black in a dance studio.

The Power of Being Seen

Washington, DC-based dance artist Devin Hill details their experiences of repeated inaccessibility and prejudice in dance, demonstrating how we must confront and deconstruct ableism as a field.

November 3, 2025  |  Read Article

Eric Garcia onstage dressed in drag makeup and wearing a yellow dress, holding a microphone.

Not Just a Funding Cut

Eric Garcia entreats institutions to embrace and support the queer, trans, Black, brown, disabled, Indigenous, and community-rooted future of dance.

October 20, 2025  |  Read Article

Sydney is in a penchee arabesque onstage, supported by her partner at the waist. They are both wearing flowy white costumes. A piano is in the corner.

Sydney: Buckled In For All That Is To Come

Sydney has been checking in with Stance on Dance every year for 13 years, sharing where dance has taken her each year. This year she performed some of her dream roles with Avant Chamber Ballet, got engaged, and prepared for a new start in New York City.

October 6, 2025  |  Read Article